Autobiography of My Dead Brother Summary

Autobiography of My Dead Brother (2005) is a vivid, wrenching, and hopeful look into the confusing and scary lives teen boys face in poor, violent, urban worlds. Through innovative illustrations and honest characterizations, Walter Dean Myers captures the conflicts—internal and external, hopeless and hopeful—that less-privileged Americans face pursuing the American dream. A finalist for the 2005 National Book Award in the young people's division, Autobiography of My Dead Brother explores life in a...

Walter Dean Myers Biographies (1)

Although Walter Dean Myers has published articles and short stories in the Liberator, Black World, and Black Arts South , his primary achievement is the juvenile books in which he attempts to touch th...
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